Hai Tian 

male, was born in 1951, is a native of Dongan county, Hunan province. He is a member of Chinese Artists Association, deputy of the Traditional Chinese Painting Committee of Hunan Painter Association, vice chairman of the Hunan Gongbi Painting Association, Hunan branch and chairman of the Xiaoxiang Gongbi Painting Art Research Institute.

 

In his artistic career, he tried to surpass the traditional ways of painting. The whole realm of artistic world lies open for him to explore. He often rebuilds his unique artistic “ microcosms” from the universe through a demonstration of aesthetic manifold structure, which integrates national style with the modern sense, the concrete with the abstract, the void with the real and the philosophic idea with wild flavor. His works are unique and graceful, creating a deep and implicit world imbued with poetic and philosophic conceptions. Critics say that his works have a peculiar style of natural grace and make his master of a school. They also say that his paintings reveal poetic beauty and intelligence.

 

His works have won many prizes in some national painting exhibitions. A number of his works have been chosen and exhibited in the U.S.A., Canada, Japan, India, Singapore, Hong Kong, Tai Wan and Macau. In addition, some of works have been collected by the Chinese Art Museum and other art galleries at home and abroad. They have been selected in some collections of painting albums publicated in China and other counties, including “ A Collection of Works by One Hundred Outstanding Chinese Painters”, “ A Collection of Works by the Prize-winners in the Eighth National Paintings Exhibition”, “A Collection of Ink-and-wash by the Greatest Chinese Painters in the World”, and the “Gems of 20^th Century Chinese Paintings”. His artistic achievements were taken down in many large dictionaries in china and other countries such as “ Dictionary of the World’s Modern Artists”. In 1997, he was elected as “ One of the Hundred Chinese Most Outstanding Painters” by the Chinese Writers and Artists Association. In 1998, as a member of Chinese artist delegation, he visited the U.S.A and held his painting exhibition there.